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While the winter holiday season brings good cheer for most people, it also brings a lot more solid waste to the landfill, harm to the environment and additional debt to the average American family. Get environmentally-smart tips for a less wasteful – perhaps less stressful — holiday this year.

Fall is our favorite time of the year — we give authors and illustrators the recognition they deserve and then donate their books to kids of all ages! On Nov. 8, we bestowed the national Green Earth Book Award to our 2017 winners, who then shared their thoughts with celebration attendees on how to teach kids of all ages how protect our planet. Learn more more about the winning authors, their school visits, and the books we donated to students.

An excerpt from Green Earth Book Award winner Nancy Castaldo’s guest blog: There were not just endangered animals, like pandas, wolves, and bald eagles. There are endangered crops species. Imagine not being able to go to the store and purchase a banana for your lunch or a sweet slice of watermelon.

Nominations for the 2018 Green Earth Book Award are now open until November 20, 2017. Winners that best convey the message of environmental stewardship will be selected by an expert panel of judges in the picture book, and children’s and young adult fiction and non fiction categories.

Thanks to our generous donors, we were able to donate hundreds of books to under-served kids during Salisbury University’s Children’s and Young Adult Literature Festival. The annual festival celebrates environmental literature, connects authors to kids through school visits and presentations, and provides a forum for University teachers-in-training to learn about environmental literature and how to […]

A View From My Window A Monthly Article by NatGen's President

“If each of us would be brave enough to accept just one dance from an unlikely partner-it might be the first step that changes the world.” Read more of The Nature Generation President’s article on how practicing empathy is the best path forward to the health of our local and global communities.